14 April 2013

Friday I received my Raspberry Pi. My intention is to use it as a webserver. When you receive a Raspberry Pi it doesn't do anything straight out of the box. In this blogpost I will give you an overview of how I set up my Raspberry Pi with just:

The Raspberry Pi itself

A 4GB SD card

So I never connected a screen, keyboard and mouse to it, to install it.

Prepare the SD card

Download the image (I used the Raspbian “wheezy”) and put it to an SD card. To make this process easy I used the Pi filler (for Mac OS X 10.5 through 10.8). Read more on how to set up your SD card here.

09 April 2013

Last year I wanted to be able to follow the amount of likes on a website, but not by looking at a Facebook or the website itself. I made an IRL display with the amount of likes with an Arduino.

The case
I created an PHP-script, using the Facebook API, checking the amount of likes and just outputting it. My Arduino would regularly check for the value outputted by my PHP script and display this on its display.

My sketch is relying on an external PHP-script, to make the Arduino code as simple as possible. A better way to do this is by having the Arduino make direct connections to Facebook, as is done in this project: Facebook Like box

I am from The Netherlands, love tinkering with stuff like Arduino's as a hobby, gadgets and technology in general. I started this blog to share and not to forget the things I built with my Arduino's and let the world enjoy my inventions :)